RSS is an amazing tool that can allow teachers and students to funnel in specific information from around the world while also sharing best practices and engaging student work with a global audience. Imagine the possibilities of researching 24/7 – even while sleeping. In this session, teachers will learn how RSS works, how to set up an RSS aggregator within Google Reader and how to make RSS work for them.
In this session, we cover what RSS is and how to locate it on a Web site. We discuss ways RSS can be useful (to follow bloggers, to find information from sites that match up with curriculum, following topics in Google News, following articles in Wikipedia, etc.). Generally, we teach Google Reader as the aggregator.
Howard Rheingold's video on builiding a Dashboard with NetVibes
RSS is an amazing tool that can allow teachers and students to funnel in specific information from around the world while also sharing best practices and engaging student work with a global audience. Imagine the possibilities of researching 24/7 – even while sleeping. In this session, teachers will learn how RSS works, how to set up an RSS aggregator within Google Reader and how to make RSS work for them.
In this session, we cover what RSS is and how to locate it on a Web site. We discuss ways RSS can be useful (to follow bloggers, to find information from sites that match up with curriculum, following topics in Google News, following articles in Wikipedia, etc.). Generally, we teach Google Reader as the aggregator.
Howard Rheingold's video on builiding a Dashboard with NetVibes
Notes from GDoc
http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/5-rss
http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com/6-rss2
http://www.slideshare.net/djakes/rss-the-new-information-pipeline
http://delicious.com/djakes/rss
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y
Google Reader
Google Reader in Plain English
Newbie's Guide to Google Reader
How to follow changes on a Web site even if it doesn't have an associated feed.
http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/01/follow-changes-to-any-website.html
Cool and unusual RSS apps...
10x10 - http://www.tenbyten.org/
Use RSS to track student work
Optional Advanced: Post Rank Filtering a la Howard Rheingold
http://adifference.blogspot.com/2010/02/infotention-or-scraping-cream-off-top.html
If you want to get more Advanced, you can explore on your own the PostRank addon for Google Reader
http://www.postrank.com/postrank/readers
Interesting: 10 x 10